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Re: [LUG] Ubuntu / Kubuntu 7.10 - have you taken the plunge ?

 

Ray Smith wrote:
 >
 >Ah, sound like the problem I mentioned I had.
 >I have the exact same card but it installed with the ati driver by 
 >default
 >instead of the radeon driver.
 >Easy to fix by booting into safe/recovery mode from the grub loader >then
 >changing any module driver loaded to radeon and defining your refresh
 >manually.
 >I just put a # in front of everthing I didn't want.
 >
 >You might get away with the new menu entry that lets you choose your >card
 >and test the configuration. As I mentioned in an eralier post,the test
 >seemed to work but then left x completely screwed up until I changed
 >xorg.conf
 >
 >Nano is your friend.
 >
 >Ray

Ahh right.  I ended up installing Feisty.  As it's not my machine I 
didn't want to have to do much to get it running.  Funnily enough Feisty 
works fine.

Now running Ubuntu Gusty (32-bit) on my PC.  Seems much quicker than 
Feisty even with Compiz running, although that might be to do with the 
fact that I haven't got much on the drive.

I noticed too that Inno Virtual Box OSE (the open source version) is now 
in Debian Unstable and also in Ubuntu universe.  I was going to install 
the non-free version but I don't need USB support or RDP support so the 
OSE version ticks all the boxes.

Rob

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